1) For Rex: My previous suggestion might not hold water. I am now playing around with a property<property name="includeMessageInContext" value="true" /> so the setVariableValues will include the originating message in the command Message if that value is true 2) For Ronald: What about for example: <action class="....."> | <property name="mapping"> | <direction from="jbpm"> | <variable jbpmName="x1" messageProp="z3" /> | <variable jbpmName="x2" messageProp="z2" /> | <variable jbpmName="x3" messageProp="z1" /> | </property> | </action> View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4020144#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...